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You have to stop calling it that: Redefining Representation as a Form of Erasure

This is... almost too good

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This. Is. EVERYTHING.

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New Queer Eye

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Reminder that queer eye season 5 came out today. I haven't seen any advertisement for the new season but I feel like especially now people might use a positive destraction

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You know, guys, it is possible to think “I am fucking sick of this lockdown and I want it to end as soon as possible so that I can hug my friends again and go and see my family” and also think “we shouldn’t end the lockdown yet because it puts people at risk”. 

Those two separate thoughts can co-exist, despite everyone on this hellsite wanting you to think that if you’re sick of quarantine and want it to be over already, it means you’re a fat ass capitalist who wants poor people to die. 

Humans are social creatures. We need proper interaction and we are not designed to be isolated from each other for long periods of time. It’s ok to be frustrated at not being able to interact with your friends and family, whilst also knowing that it’s necessary at the moment. 

For god’s sake, stop shitting on people who are missing their friends and families. 

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So here's a wild idea: cops should never kill anyone for any reason in any circumstance. A cop killing someone represents, at best, a failure to correctly deescalate the situation. Any cop who kills anyone should be immediately banned from being a cop ever again AND put on criminal trial (no internal investigations). If they are found not guilty of murder, then they can go get another job doing something else. But no one who has ever killed another person should still be a cop.

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For science:

I’d like to see which Shakespeare plays people were required to read in high school (not that you chose to read, but ones that were actually assigned and discussed), so reblog or comment!

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I realize this comment will have niche relatability but when I’m taking drive-thru orders I often “trick” customers into thinking I’m going fast when I’m actually going slow, then they pull up to the window all happy and surprised when their drink is ~*~*~Already Ready For Them~*~*~. It is a neat little magic trick where people see their time at the box as active and their time at the window as passive.

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What's a book you'd like to see more people reading, and why?

Fiction-wise, why literally everyone is not talking about Middlegame by Seanan McGuire is baffling to me.  Seanan’s always been a solid author, she has a gift, but this is more than that.  Middlegame shows both her range and depth as a writer, those things that give writing a soul, and her finely-honed technical abilities. The former is on display in just about everything she touches.  The second has never been fully unleashed until now.  She pulls off an incredible high-wire act, balancing a zigzag narrative pace, a convoluted plot, and multiple planes of meaning with a gripping and utterly original story that is as compelling as it is bizarre.  You can look up a synopsis, I’m not going to try to do that here.  I’m just going to say that I went in with high expectations and was absolutely blown away.  I’m not exaggerating when I say I have never read anything like it, it is the best and most technically proficient piece of writing I have read in I don’t even know how long.  Writing a short story with this many tiny gears and moving parts is hard enough.  A novel?  Unbelievable.  It will go down as a classic.  I mean a real classic, one that people will still be pointing to in 40 years as an example of what the genre can do when in the hands of someone that capable.  You should all read it.  Buy it and read it.  Or, if the absolutely buckwild and nigh-indescribable premise doesn’t appeal to you, investigate one of her other series, or her work in comics.  I guarantee that she does something that you will like.  Urban fantasy? The October Daye series.  Action/adventure with monsters and cryptids? The InCryptid series.  Fairy tales gone wrong with wild twists and turns?  Indexing and its sequel.  YA portal fantasy with a gloriously diverse cast of relatable weirdos and even weirder worlds?  The Wayward Children series.  Ghosts?  Sparrow Hill Road, or maybe Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day.  Murderous mermaids?  Rolling in the Deep and Into the Drowning Deep.  Short stories?  Laughter at the Academy, or just kick in to her Patreon.  Her body of work is huge.  Go.  Shoo.

At the very least, if you know a Weird Kid, especially a queer kid, get them in on the Wayward Children series.  I truly believe those books will save some lives, and make others more bearable.  Also, sales feed her cats, and Thomas is immense.

Nonfiction-wise, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris is a riveting nonfiction book about the life of Joseph Lister, an awesome dude, and about the state of medicine in the Victorian era, which was frankly horrible. It gave me a lot of perspective on just how far we’ve come so quickly, and just how filthy Victorian living conditions actually were.  I wrote a thank you letter to my surgeon after reading it.  REALLY good, and it doesn’t require a lot of knowledge going in for it to be enjoyable, if harrowing.  I think, culturally, we need to have more respect for science and more awareness of just how quickly we made the advances we now take for granted, and how they are there for a reason (and that reason is like 85% so we don’t die of erysipelas and scarlet fever).  And we need to respect Lister’s legacy by WASHING OUR FUCKING HANDS.  I read the book over a year ago, and I still think about it often.  Just about daily now, actually.  I don’t admire many dead white guys, but I make an exception for Lister.  Dude was on a whole ‘nother level of having his shit together.

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true crime is becoming to girls what ww2 is to boys

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posting because some people see the united states as a monolith run by a crazy person (that part is true), but we also have individual state governments trying their best despite all that.

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i miss you a lot. i keep thinking about how you looked with your head tilted back, laughing. i’ve lost lovers before and wept over my fingers. but what am i going to cry about this time? you were just my best friend. i still know your birthday and your favorite color and how you feel about lemonade and how you sound singing at the top of your lungs. like, i still think about you at night, wondering if you’re doing alright - but when i reach out, we walk the same six conversations - how’s it going? haha yeah that’s crazy. oh cool! yeah totally. yeah i’m busy too. hope we can see each other soon. i know we’re different people now. but you know. somehow, i still love you.

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so my family went to the tulip fields and my little sister didn’t have a good time at all

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